Conservation of Wood Artifacts A Handbook

The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monographs, inclu

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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH

A. Unger · A.P. Schniewind · W. Unger

Conservation of Wood Artifacts A Handbook

With 69 Figures and 35 Tables

Springer

Series Editors Professor Dr. Bernd Herrmann Institut fiir Anthropologie Universitlit Gottingen BiirgerstraBe 50 37073 Gottingen, Germany

Professor Dr. GUnther A. Wagner Institut fiir Archaeometrie Max-Planck-Institut fiir Kernphysik Saupfercheckweg 1 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Authors Dr. rer. nat. Achim Unger Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Rathgen-Forschungslabor SchlossstraBe la 14059 Berlin, Germany

Professor Dr. Arno P. Schniewind Forest Products Laboratory University of California at Berkeley 1301 South 46th Street Richmond, CA 94804-4698, USA

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Professor Dr. rer. nat. Wibke Unger University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde Wood Science and Technology Alfred-Moller-StraBe 1 16225 Eberswalde, Germany

E-mail: [email protected] ISBN 978-3-642-07480-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Unger, Achim. Conservation of wood artifacts : with 69 figures and 5 tables I A. Unger, A.P. Schniewind, W. Unger. p. em. - (Natural science in archaeology) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-3-642-07480-6 ISBN 978-3-662-06398-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-06398-9 I. Archaeology - Methodology. 2. Woodwork - Conservation and restoration - Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Wood - Preservation - Handbooks, manuals, etc. 4. Wood - Chemistry - Handbooks, manuals, etc. 5. Antiquities - Collection and preservation - Handbooks, manuals, etc. 6. Cultural property - Protection. I. Schniewind, Arno P. II. Unger, Wibke. III. Title. IV. Series. CC137.W6 U54 2001 702.8'8 - dc21 This work is subject to copyright. All rights reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copy-right Law.

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